Walker is a residential suburb just east of the centre of Newcastle. Walker's name is a hybrid of Old English and Viking Norse, "Wall-kjerr", where "kjerr" is Norse for "marshy woodland". The name therefore means "marshy woodland by the wall", where the wall in question is of course Hadrian's Wall.

Most of the photos on this page are taken in an area between Welbeck Road and Walker Road which is only a small part of Walker. Other parts of Walker will follow at some stage.

ahhh my old stomping ground looking for pics of old east walker school bottom of welbeck road/bath street where i went in the 50s n 60s great little school and wanting to show my kids where i went to school and lived in bath street any one help//?//

I would love to have some old photos of welbeck rd, White St Neptune Rd area from the 50s and 60s - when the Riverside line was operating, paticularly East Walker School (my old school) that long ramp-line of long steps down to Welbeck Rd and Calabountin's Fish Shop on the opposite side of the road, the off-liscence and betting shop a little further north, and the timy little green shack near the Neptune yard (where I worked) at the bottom of Welbeck Road, and the Gents and Ladies toilets at the bottom of Welbeck Rd. (Still there at beginning of 80s although not for us)Actually, thats a point. There were public toilets on Church St, behind a Welbeck Rd church I remember, there was public toilets all over the place. Handy if you were caught short. Walker Park had them, Glasshouse Bridge, Opposite the old Gibson St Baths on New Bridge St (That's still there, but theres TREES where the urinals used to be now - you can see them as you pass on the bus towards the town after St Dom's catholic church)Actually, got me thinking that. A subject for discussion tonight over a few jars !

I grew up in the early 1950's in a Prefab in Greenford Road? Anyone else do the same? Lived really close to the Gasometer?? Would love to see some old photos of that street/area. Moved to Fawdon to the new estate there around 1954.

My name was Jimmy Dack, now Wilson; and I was born at 49 Greenford road 10 May 1958.I went to the school at the bottom of the road but cannot recall the name of it.a couple of friends that I remember are walter Atkinson and Gordon Foster.I was knocked over on Walker road opposite the County pub and my friend David who I was with was killed.Cathy Carter was the woman that my granddad lived with.I left Walker in 1963.Has anyone got any news of the people that I mentioned or the school that I attended , which was also the sea cadets place.